Posts Tagged refashioning

Why make a simple Colette Sorbetto top in just an hour when you can spread it out over several?

This is how you do it.

Take a failed skirt project – a Zinnia since you’re asking – ignore the beautifully done, probably never to be repeated, invisible zip insertion and attempt to cut out a new pattern from the salvaged fabric.

Remember the reason the original skirt failed was your inability to match the plaid but continue regardless, confident you will not make the same mistake twice.

Cut out two fronts by mistake.

Manage to salvage a back but in two pieces instead of one and about 3 inches too short

Find some toning fabric to make the back pieces long enough and try to make it look like a design feature.

Fail to match the plaid on the back and one side but it’s either carry on or bin it.

Make your own bias tape.

Attach the bias tape to one armhole, do it wrong and unpick it.

Realise you didn’t do it wrong after all and re-attach it.

Wonder if you could enter it in Sew2Pro’s homage to Vivienne Westwood competition as it is tartan and non-conformist.

Wonder if you should enter the next Great British Sewing Bee.

Resign yourself to wearing it only with a cardi or jacket over the top.

Come to the awful realisation that, despite the front being cut on a fold and therefore must surely match, the pleat throws the pattern out again. Definitely one for wearing out in the garden with a pair of shorts and chalking up to experience.